Sentences with phrase «minimum wage job»

It took a few years of working minimum wage jobs before I settled on cyber security.

In times past, even minimum wage jobs were essential for securing loans since they showed financial institutions that there was a source of income that would support repayment.

They'll need two or more minimum wage jobs to do it but people are doing it.

I'm a firm believer that everyone should work at least one minimum wage job during their life.

The proportion of older workers (55 +) working minimum wage jobs grew much more slowly... but it's the fastest growing age cohort of workers.

So you take whatever minimum wage job you can find unrelated to your field.

Those who work minimum wage jobs, have pre-existing conditions, etc..

I owe about $ 6k in back taxes, and simply don't have the money — it's hard for me to find even minimum wage jobs in the current economy, and I am burdened with consumer debt.

Recall the case a couple years ago with the 2 international students who worked off - campus at minimum wage jobs and faced deportation.

«We've got everything from minimum wage jobs up to professional management level jobs.

It will be good news for workers on minimum wage jobs but the rise is not big enough to keep pace with Osborne's promise that the rate will reach # 9 by 2020.

We could also work a part time minimum wage job and come close to covering our entire barebones budget if things got really tough.

Nickeled and Dimed is a memoir of Ehrenreich's experiences in a wide range of minimum wage jobs across the country.

If liquor stores go out of buisness the owners will have to sucuumb to the big box stores minimum wage jobs without benefits.

The job market is still tough for grads — in 2012, 284,000 students graduated into minimum wage jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But from the very beginning, Jack Black's first - generation Polish immigrant Jan Lewan is presented as a well - meaning, ambitious father and husband, working minimum wage jobs while owning a Pennsylvania strip mall trinket shop and leading his namesake polka band (featuring a sandpaper - dry Jason Schwartzman on clarinet), always with a huge smile on his face.

«Every place around here is looking for help and many employees don't want to take minimum wage jobs,» says Pavone, who adds bumping up the wage would make it harder to find workers.

Having worked many dismal minimum wage jobs, this was a godsend.

Lowey notes that oil company profits continue to climb at a time when people holding minimum wage jobs can not afford to drive to work.

It may curtail the number of new minimum wage jobs, with the hope that these new jobs would then pay a decent wage.

With 2 minimum wage jobs sometimes it's hard to live paycheck to paycheck but Target has some really beautiful things that would furnish our apartment so nicely

Rather than working minimum wage jobs until she finds a husband to support her while she stays home and has children, Eilis uses her natural talents to go for a career that is dominated by men.

Todd Rose isn't your average Harvard professor — but not because he dropped out of high school, spent time on welfare, and had 10 different minimum wage jobs and a wife and kid before he even finished being a teenager.

At $ 15, a full - time, 40 - hour - a-week minimum wage job would pay $ 600 a week or $ 31,200 a year, compared to $ 23,712 at the current level of $ 11.40.

Subsequent to her injury, the WSIB discontinued her compensation benefits and determined that despite her serious back injury, she remained employable and able to sustain minimum wage job.

Young first time workers will need to compete with seasoned professionals for a mind - numbing minimum wage job flipping burgers or scooping ice cream for irate customers.

So, list your piddly little minimum wage jobs.

We should pursue our passions even if we have to work that minimum wage job in order to do it; we should be motivated by the impact of our words on the world, not our bank accounts.

Proponents of the measure say paid sick time is good public health and business policy, and will help ensure job security for those who rely on minimum wage jobs that often don't provide paid sick time.

I can't pay all my debt off with a part time minimum wage job and also feed myself.

As further evidence, Donohue pointed to the disgraceful minimum wage deal, giving the lowest paid workers a small increase over three years but linking it to a business tax break that actually encourages the creation of more minimum wage jobs at the expense of low wage workers.

We applaud the Speaker, Assemblymembers Wright and Heastie, and their colleagues for recognizing that the days of minimum wage jobs being reserved to high school students earning some extra pocket money are long over.

We worked minimum wage jobs at fast food chains at 15 hours per week and we ate most of our food from our jobs because we didn't qualify for food stamps as full time college students.

A more nagging problem is that «failure to launch» has led to more people in their prime earning years working minimum wage jobs.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

In Canada, the proportion of people aged 20 to 24 working a minimum wage job doubled since pre-recession, as did the proportion of people aged 25 to 54.

This means that if you choose to start a business, thinking that it would be a good source of funds, you could very well make less money than your friend who works a minimum wage job.

«I got a minimum wage job in a windowless chemistry lab where I had to wear a full - body protection suit and clean glass beakers with acid.

But if you look at where the jobs are, these are minimum wage jobs.

That may not sound like a lot of money, but over the course of a year, you could easily earn as much as if you were working full - time at a minimum wage job — only with the perks of running your own business!

If anybody is too spoiled or clueless, they should join me in working close to a minimum wage job as an adult!

While they work their minimum wage job 40 to 80 hours a week to pay the minimal bills.

She worked a minimum wage job and lived with a family that took her in.

Right... unlike the Republicans who say «Let's all join in unity — that includes you ungrateful poor folk who don't appreciate your minimum wage jobs with no health benefits.»

«No percent of the front page could be set aside for a regular «It's Still True Today» sidebar, one day pointing out that a full - time worker in a minimum wage job still earns less than two thirds of what it costs to keep a family of four out of poverty, and the next day that 43.6 million Americans still lack health insurance.